Projects
Solist
Being a solo musician is the hardest and most intense of all, and therefore it is fun!
In my solo program, I play my compositions as well as the most beautiful and virtuous pieces ever written for Oud.
I play also Def, Riq, Cajon, Stompbox, and Cümbüs and present a band made of a soloist with the Loopstation.
There is no better way to get to know the Oud with all of its histories over 4500 years, sounds, and horizons than to listen to my solo repertoire!
Stringed Compass
A Syrian and a Colombian, an oud and a guitar meet on the Elbe River in Dresden, Germany: A musical symbiosis full of harmony and contrasts, an experiment that transforms the familiar, challenges the senses, and unites what geography and traditions separate. The product of this encounter: Oriental Latin jazz, Syrian bolero, and Arabian bluegrass. Loud or quiet, always full of energy. It is a mystical world of music where 28 is the new 15, where rivers from different continents converge, and where a Migrant Migraine is the saga you absolutely want to experience. You are looking at a Stringed Compass redefining all directions in a disoriented, constant struggle. You are invited to unpack these sweet, sour, and bitter dishes with Thabet Azzawi and Max Loeb García and explore musical horizons with these unique original compositions. True world music!
Thabet Azzawi (Syria): Composition, Oud, Def, Riq, Cajon, Cümbüs
Max Loeb Garcia (Colombia): Guitar
Banda Comunale (Internationale)
The Banda Comunale has been making music in Dresden for 20 years. We make unrestrained use of cultural assets from supposedly foreign countries and peoples. Our repertoire largely contains music from the crisis regions of the world: North Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East,
Colombia, West, East and Central Africa, Eastern Europe.
The now almost 20-member collective with musicians from Germany, Syria, Palestine, Scotland, Brazil, Italy, Russia, Poland and Iraq has won numerous awards since then
won and played more than 400 concerts in Dresden, Saxony and Germany.
The big common goal was to reinterpret native music, to open hearts, to break down prejudices and resentments and to contribute to understanding between new and long-established Saxons, Germans and Europeans.
more on bandacomunale.de
The Babel Project
The Babel Project is a project that brings together musicians from all over the world (Syria, Germany, Italy, Latvia, South Africa, the USA, etc.) for a musical experience that travels through time and space, combining klezmer, Renaissance dances, music from the Syrian and Yiddish traditions with new compositions. The concept is less ‘world music’ and more ‘time music’ – a leap through the centuries in which old and new rhythms, melodies and styles merge and something new emerges from the old. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter where the music comes from or what era it belongs to, as long as it makes you want to dance and demonstrates solidarity, tolerance and friendship.
Sasha Lurje – vocals
Lorin Sklamberg (Klezmatics) – vocals and accordion
Avery Gosfield – flute, percussion, conductor
Craig Judelman – violin
Thabet Azzawi – oud and percussion
Massimiliano Dragoni – hammered dulcimer and percussion